Vocabulary

• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• no accident: Not happening by chance; deliberate or intentional.
• apartment building: A building with many apartments or flats
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• at least: As a minimum
• leave it there: To put something down and not move it from that location.
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• plenty: When there is not too little of something; a lot
• campaign: To work in an organized, active way towards a goal
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• claim: To say that something is true, often without proof.
• separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
• military: Army or armed forces
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• blast: To attack someone with words
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• involve: To have or be included as a part of something
• responsible: Being the cause of something that has occurred
• blow: To move something using air
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• responsibility: Job, task or thing you are expected to look after
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• aim: Act of pointing something at a target
• invasion: Entry into a place to cause harm
• command: To be able to see far from a certain location
• chemical: Basic substance produced by mixing elements
• biological: Being related to life and living things
• investigation: Search for information about something
• magnetic: Having the properties of a magnet; able to attract
• scar: Long lasting emotional pain from a bad experience
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• staff: Employees of a company
• public: Owned by the government
• accident: Sudden unplanned event causing damage, injury etc.
• point: An item to be discussed
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• great: Very good; better than before
• explosion: Loud and sudden expression of emotion
• rank: To rate or class things
• bureau: Administrative unit of government
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• effectiveness: Degree of how well something works or is done
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• happen: To take place or occur
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• brass: Yellow metal made by combining copper and zinc
• assassination: Murder of a public figure by surprise attack
• bomb: To attack with explosives
• update: Addition of a current version of something
• lieutenant: Officer in the army, navy, or air force
• ghost: To write a book on behalf of another person
• operational: Being in working condition and ready to be used
• outspoken: Saying (too) clearly what you think
• detonate: To trigger or start an explosion
• telegram: Written message sent by using an electrical device
• gen: (UK old-fashioned, informal) Information about a particular subject
• lt: Short for 'lieutenant'